For those who don't remember it, BeOS was a multimedia-centric operating system from Be Inc. that was discontinued several years ago.

Open source Haiku has in many ways picked up where BeOS left off, but in the meantime ZevenOS borrows elements of BeOS's look and feel for its own multimedia-focused operating system.

Included among several media-oriented apps preinstalled in the new OS are OpenShot 1.4.3, which features YouTube upload support, as well as Audacity 2.0 for sound. Also included are PulseAudio 2.1, Inkscape 0.48, GIMP 2.8, and the DeaDBeeF 0.5.6 and MPlayer2 media players.

Xubuntu 12.10 forms the basis for the software, whose old deskbar tool has now been replaced by the Xfce4-panel deskbar mode, which adds extensible plugin support and more flexibility in desktop configuration.

Katherine Noyes has been an ardent geek ever since she first conquered Pyramid of Doom on an ancient TRS-80. Today she covers enterprise software in all its forms, with an emphasis on cloud computing, big data, analytics and artificial intelligence.